Philip Johnson Quotes
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Being evil is easy.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
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As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
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I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.
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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
